Emily B. J. Coffey

Left-DLPFC theta-burst stimulation produces delayed effects on musical pleasure without affecting piano-melody learning

Reward operates as a cycle in which a stimulus produces a pleasure response, and the degree of pleasure experienced reinforces the behaviours that lead back to it. Music provides a useful model for examining this cycle because it is intrinsically pleasurable, can be learned, and engages reward-related frontostriatal ci...